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- adjective Of or pertaining to
memes ; pertaining toreplication ofconcepts .
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Examples
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I have combined the ancient and modern ideas of thought-forms into the term memetic thought-forms.
Memetic Thought-Forms Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Scientists, journalists, ministers, and now bloggers - really anyone who proselytizes ideas - could be described as a memetic engineer.
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Furthermore, the specifics of Said's concept of Orientalism won't feature as strongly in the book, if only to avoid confusion, although I will still go with the intertextuality in coining the memetic taxon of "Orientalist memes" - which I won't restrict to representations of Middle Eastern cultures.
Thinkers' Podium 2010
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While the Dvorksy essay on "curing" fundamentalism that Stephen links to is well-intentioned George says of the fundamentalists that he wants to "return to them free will, rationality and self-respect" in order to help give their lives "meaning and purpose", I tend to share Stephen's concerns about this kind of memetic engineering.
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In any case, by "memetic," I don't mean anything more technical or fancy than this:Susan Blackmore 2002 re-stated the meme definition as whatever is copied from one person to another person, whether habits, skills, songs, stories, or any other kind of information.
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In any case, by "memetic," I don't mean anything more technical or fancy than this:Susan Blackmore 2002 re-stated the meme definition as whatever is copied from one person to another person, whether habits, skills, songs, stories, or any other kind of information.
Archive 2006-05-14 2006
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I wonder if Wikis or games based on this method would be subject to "memetic" attacks.
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I like their line incl use of word memetic, damn I better get that into a sentence tomorrow (email if u are able to tomorrow - maybe when u speak to marketing: The new brand campaign is so memetic.
RocketBoom H264 Ads $11,700. 7 Days to Go Ben Barren 2006
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I like their line incl use of word memetic, damn I better get that into a sentence tomorrow (email if u are able to tomorrow - maybe when u speak to marketing: The new brand campaign is so memetic.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ben Barren 2006
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(link) I wonder what kind of memetic hazard the Letter People songs are.
mrissa: It's an old dance injury. mrissa 2010
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